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Wednesday 13 April 2016
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Warriors get dirty
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Maling to stand for mayor
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Residents unhappy with ‘botched’ road Brittany Spencer
Andrew Board
ard. “Richard is a nice guy but I don’t think he’s tough Former Richmond council- enough, particularly with lor Kit Maling is back for an- the staff and that shows with other crack at the mayoralty. what’s happened to rates Kit was a councillor from over the years. I don’t think 2010 to 2013 and stood for he’s decisive enough over the dam issue either the mayoralty at the 2013 election against – he’s not showing leadership on that.” incumbent Richard Kit believes he can Kempthorne, losing by just 831 votes. get the numbers to He announced a topple the threefresh bid for election term mayor. “Four [candidates] stood on Monday. against Richard at “I’ve been mulling Kit Maling. it over in the past the last election few months and I’ve been and there was 11,000 votes encouraged to stand by a against him, out of 18,000 – number of people in the that tells you something.” community, including busi- Kit, a former police officer ness people. I’m 62, so if I’m and orchardist, says he is going to do it, I’ve got to do it standing on five key issues: now or not at all and I want affordability of rates; for the to make a difference,” he told council to stick to core services; looking after the reWaimea Weekly. Kit says the region needs a gion’s water supply including new mayor and he can offer SEE PAGE 2 something different to Rich-
Rays Way resident Fritz Mann says the reseal job on his street has been ‘botched’. Photo: Andrew Board.
Residents of a Richmond street are angry after a resealing job turned Rays Way into a “pot-holed mess” that’s resulted in tar and roading chip being smeared over the footpaths and driveways. Before Christmas, the Tasman District Council contracted Fulton Hogan to resurface Rays Way as part of council’s resealing programme but residents say they have been left with a sticky tar-covered mess and they are not happy. Disgruntled resident Fritz Mann says the resealing is “a botched job” that is “unsatisfactory” and he wants council to fix “the bloody big mess”. “It’s just a bit of tar with some stones on it, that’s all it is, it’s not asphalt.” He says all the residents thought that it was a substandard reseal from the beginning but were hoping the tar would harden and the chip would settle down. “After four months, it’s still sticky and messy. The grit is still loose and it’s not getting any better. “We’re all in a nice area and our properties are really getting abused by all the tar and the grit. My garage is full of rubbish and asphalt, the mats in my car are full of tar and it keeps getting into the house.”
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